I have come to really love Google Reader, as a way to get my news, tag various posts, and act in some ways as an information manager. 

However, it is clear that there is simply too much to read - like music, too much out there, so I only read 'the biggies', and the people I know.

How a single SCOOP site handles posters, is that the people themselves in a scoop site, can RECOMMEND a post - thus Daily Kos recommended dairies.  So you are using the "Wisdom of Crowds" to find good posts by people you do not know.

I think you can do something similar with blog searcher engines, and blog readers.

I have some suggestions for rss readers in general, and specifically for the google setup. 

I am thinking that posts could get "rated", and I'm thinking in a 4 x 4 framework:

Style                               1   2   3   4
Importance Relevance     1   2   3   4
Informed/Accuracy         1   2   3   4
Recommend?                  1   2   3   4

This would work very well on Google Reader -

Down opposite the labels, have a "Rate It?" button, that opens up a small little grid of radio buttons for the 1-4, and each of the above qualities of rating.

Google then keeps this information in their database - across all people using Google Reader.

Then, there should be a link (or embedded) the Google Blog Search functionality, that on the Advanced Search, would incorporate these ratings (or perhaps a by? with the 4 categories).

That way, I could search blogs by utilizing not only the relevance engine already built-into google (links, popularity) but I could search by "Integral Practice", and "Recommended", and get the most recommended column ABOUT the search I am doing.

I don't know whether this is possible - but for example, technorati has begun to use authority as a way to build in relevance.  But incorporate ratings would make this even better.

Any thoughts on this?  Let me know if you think this exists somewhere.

And I think it is even possible!

1. Simply have a very small rf or other type of transmitter in every product - or simply tape "your" rf transmitters to all your items -

2. then have the transmitters in all of your items ping the "ether" - like you can zero in on cellphones now. 

3. You have an interface to your own house, as part of "My Google".

4. Google integrates and improves various "automated bots", to give various personalities to the responsed google gives back to you.

Wham!  Instant "oscar the grouch" google keyfinder!

This will be useful - chalk one more up to immediate social gratification.

Not only will I be able to create and Integral Feed - I can also show headlines on the site.

Of course, this is similar to the current Integral Feed I have - but from the same interface I read from - Google Reader.

Also based on tags you develop for each feed, which is great as well.

I wonder how tongue in cheeck this is?

Hmm, somehow I doubt that blogging counts as transformational, although it can be very translational.

I'm going to borrow Vince's excellent post to deal with the category confusion apparent here.

Still, the value of blogging is perspectival, and ongoing dialogue, can point to the real, as much as the false.

There's a decent chance that blogs like Mystery of Existence , may have the ability to shift the perspective of identity from the false to the real.

When multi-media gets incorporated, shift is here!

and why it will stay that way for awhile.

The article identifies six reasons why the ipod succeeds - and how difficult it is for any single player to match all six competitive advantages.

With apologies to VC!

One month ago I wrote this:

You know there has been all this discussion of whether Google, or Yahoo would come out with an office application, and "take on" Microsoft.  (And notice, nowhere did I mention Microsoft in ANY of the above applications, or actually anything installed on your desktop.)  And for myself, I always thought that it would be stupid to challenge Microsoft in terms of Office.  Office is a great product, and always has been.  Notice that Office is still an amazing seller on Apple machines, when there really is no NEED for it, per se.

But the truth is, the online world, and the various web applications are ALREADY taking on Microsoft.  If Google, or Yahoo, don't get in the game, or BUY one of the above better applications...they'll be left behind.  So they have to get moving, there really isn't much of a choice for them.

And today, I read that Google has bought Writely, the online word processor.

So, now the competition begins.  Those who can use Google for mail, IM chat, voice talk, as well as blogging, will now - once Writely is integrated into Google architecture - be able to have all documents stored on Google.

This of course, is a direct shot at Microsoft - but as I said, this was a market that moving forward, so Google had no choice but to get in the game.